As an undergraduate he had sympathised with Arnold in resenting the agitation led by the High Church Party in 1836 against the appointment of RD Hampden to the Regius professorship of divinity.

Gibson experimented with an SG that included the same Moog active electronics that had previously been used in another Gibson model, the RD Artist.

The 4 models featured the same cab ; the U and DM had the cab offset to the left, and the early RD and DM had 3-piece steel hoods.

They later had 1-piece hoods, the RD had a new hood, and the DM the U hood.

The filmmaker Subhash Ghai promised RD Burman Ram Lakhan ( 1989 ), but gave it instead to Laxmikant-Pyarelal, who had earlier played in Burman's orchestra.

RD Burman's first wife was Rita Patel, whom he had met in Darjeeling.

The original Japanese RD 350 had 40 bhp but the Indian Editions were detuned to 31 bhp due to lower fuel quality in India and also to increase Mileage.

The first HT edition of the RD 350 had too much power for the average Indian Rider as back then the Indian Market was not used to such a performance product The RD was a crotch Rocket capable of hitting 165 KM / HR in 6th gear.

This prompted Yamaha to bring a detuned version of the RD 350 LT ( low torque ) which had 27 bhp with better pick up but less top speed & slightly better mileage.

The name RD stands for “ Race Derived ” performance and had technology from the Motogp bikes of the 1970 ′ s.

The Hero Honda CD 100 which was launched in the 1985 further dented the RD ’ s sales figures as it had better mileage.

The RD had a slick 6-speed close ratio gearbox with 1 down 5 up pattern.

The RD had twin exhausts and the Indian models had only 150 mm drum brakes at both ends. Coupled with the skinny tires the RD had scary high-speed handling and braking control characteristics.

The Race RD ’ s were turbocharged and had smaller sprockets and wheels, which pushed the power up to 85 bhp.

The Race RD ’ s had modified powered up exhausts. The Race RD was the “ Undisputed King of the MMSC Race Track ” before it was discontinued from racing.

RD Burman did major work with Asha Bhosle ( his wife ) and Kishore Kumar, and scored many of the songs that made these singers famous.

According to Douglas Wolk, RD Burman " wrapped sugary string swoops around as many ideas as he could squeeze in at once ".

RD Burman inspired many later Bollywood music composers, such as Vishal-Shekhar.

The RD was the first proper performance Superbike in India and it still enjoys cult status. Performance Purists still swear by it and many RD clubs are found all around the country.

In 1995, WWV unveiled a prototype of an all-new transit-style school bus called the Wayne RD 9000, featuring many innovations never before seen in school buses.

RD was used for many documentation in the Ruby world.

* RD: Research & Development ( like fuel-cell cars, smart car rental cars )

It was fitted to all of the later models of the RZ / RD two-stroke road bikes ( 125, 250 350 and 500 cc ), the TZR range. it was also added to the DT ( 125lc 2 / 3 ) range after 1984 ( but was locked closed to comply with UK learner regulations until the ( R ) in 1988-04 which had a fully functional YPVS valve ) the dt125r has a better design of engine, although not much altered in speed, just more reliable than its predecessor.

Graceland officials envision a strip of Elvis Presley Boulevard transformed into a beautiful entertainment district from East Brooks RD all the way down to East Shelby Drive.

In 1932, the Crowland ( which consisted of the single parish of Crowland ) RD was abolished and added to Spalding RD, and all urban districts apart from Spalding were abolished and added to East Elloe RD.

Eventually RD discovers the secret behind the mysterious " Alpha Zoid " and with the help of pilots from all over the city, defeats the Seismosaurus holding it under siege.

Upon meeting the base criteria across all five development domains, Rafflesians are automatically awarded the RD, with exceptional students obtaining a merit or distinction in a particular domain.

The Départments have responsibility for all roads beginning with a letter D, or occasionally RD.

The usually provide 10 interface signal powered LEDs to permanently monitor TD, RD, RTS, CTS, DSR, CD, TC, RC, DTR ( E ) TC signals, as well as enabling the breakout of individual circuits or reconfiguration or patching any or all of the 24 active switch positions. Example of a pocket-sized RS-232 breakout box that features switches to reconfigure or patch any or all the active circuitry.

Typical abbreviations are 2-4 characters long, and it's a good idea to make sure all abbreviations for one property are the same number of characters ( so for instance, use RD and BU for Red and Blue, rather than RED and BLUE ).

RITA ’ s Research, Development, and Technology ( RD & T ) office ’ s mission is to coordinate research across all modes of transportation and to promote advanced innovative transportation solutions.

This definition is problematic, and the Law Commission, Butler Committee and leading legal academic RD Mackay ( p 63, 1995 ) have all argued that this definition is too restrictive.

It has been extensively used in reference to a clause in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which specified that all information about nuclear weapons and nuclear energy was to be considered " Restricted Data " ( RD ) until it had been officially declassified.

This is the Reported Distance ( RD ) + the cost to reach the neighboring router from which the RD was sent.

In the method defined by RFC 2547, BGP extensions advertise routes in the IPv4 VPN address family, which are of the form of 12-byte strings, beginning with an 8-byte Route Distinguisher ( RD ) and ending with a 4-byte IPv4 address.

* Reserve Decoration or Decoration for Reserve Force Service (" RD "-post nominal letters ), since 2003, awarded to South African Military Reserve members after 20 years service, at least five of which must have been in the Reserve Force

The Peugeot RD is a rear wheel drive car which has a 405 body and mechanical parts from the Paykan.

When he was nine years old, RD Burman composed his first song, Aye meri topi palat ke aa, which his father used in the film Funtoosh ( 1956 ).

Some of the notable films in which RD Burman is credited as the music assistant include Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi ( 1958 ), Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), Tere Ghar Ke Samne ( 1963 ), Bandini ( 1963 ), Guide ( 1965 ) and Teen Devian ( 1965 ).

RD Burman also played mouth organ for his father's hit composition Hai Apna Dil to Aawara which was featured in the movie Solva Saal ( 1958 ).

Other films which credit RD Burman include Gang ( 2000 ) and Monsoon Wedding ( 2001, for Chura liya hai ).

A number of Indian remix albums feature RD Burman's songs, which are also popular in the country's pubs and discos.

The album was an international collaboration, for which RD Burman partnered with Jose Flores in San Francisco.

In 1987, RD Burman, Gulzar and Asha Bhosle worked on a album titled Dil Padosi Hai, which was released on 8 September 1987, Asha Bhosle's birthday.

In 1972 Mangotsfield UD and Warmley RD were merged with the Kingswood UD to form Kingswood Borough, which was merged with Northavon in 1996 to form South Gloucestershire unitary district.